Mobo not detecting ram speed, help!

[travcarp]

Okay well I bought ram it's rated at something like 1600 but my motherboard is only recognizing it at 1300. How do I change it?

mobo
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128397


ram
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211409


P.s. One of the comments on the motherboard was;

Cons: This is only a Con for the beginning system builder. It requires a trip to the BIOS to correctly set up high performance ram. It was running my DDR3-1600 at 1066 out of the box and had the voltage set too low as well. Its autodetect for the ram is very conservatively and underclocked. I normally run through the BIOS on first boot, so this is not really a bad thing, but first time or inexperienced builders should be aware of it.

 

[saint19]

Enter to the BIOS and set the CL, the voltage and all the other specifications manually.

 

[travcarp]

Problem is that I don't know what to set these to, I never done this before - how do I know what numbers they go to?

 

[saint19]

Start to read this:

1- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAS_latency

2- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_timings

 

[travcarp]

I read it but it's just all mumble jumble that I don't understand. There is no easy way of doing this?

 

[saint19]

No, if you want all the speed of your RAM, you need set manually in the BIOS and don't exist the "easy" way for do this.

 

[estraulino]

Hi! Sorry for asking another question on this thread.

I have an Asus P4SD-LA motherboard and it does not recognize my ram at the proper speed. I had 3GB of pc3200 but now it detects it like pc2700. All sticks of ram are pc3200, and I checked them with CPU-Z.

What could it be?